As Proudhon would say, La propriete, c'est le vol! Bro!

Yo I have been rebuked up in this

NBC renewed the show almost immediately to get production underway, but it was my impression that they didn't have a full order of episodes in before Poehler went on maternity leave. Hence the decision to let Outsourced be the first half and bring Parks and Rec back in after the rest of the production had finished.…

Hey now

Like seriously too dude, she just popped out that baby some three months ago.

Parks and Recreation coming in midseason isn't NBC's deal — it's because of Amy Poehler's pregnancy. They didn't want to shoehorn her giant baby-filled stomach into some sort of pregnancy-plot or other hacky trope, so they decided to just delay the episode order. Parks and Rec is coming back mid-season because they…

Every hour is Weird Sexual Predator Hour, it's just about making opportunities instead of waiting for them.

Also
"And then it's just the inexorable march of time to summer, when everyone will retire for several months to the shores of Nice, where they will frolic in the surf, read Baudelaire, and ignore television in favor of reawakening their most dormant desires."

Whoah
Seriously, this is an uncharacteristically good move by NBC. I mean, expanding the night instead of nixing shows? You'd think they'd end up cancelling either Parks and Rec or Community and destroying the goodwill established thereof, but the fact that they're willing to keep them around is really reaffirming.

I'm not disagreeing or anything, but I do appreciate the AVClub as being part of the dastardly lib media cabal. It's like, you guys have the legitimacy now, you know? Maybe Nathan Rabin can start telling people he has a real job and mean it.

Kinda a bummer
Alaska is a really gorgeous state, and if there's any state that could use a focused little nature miniseries, that's it.

Marion Cotillard would make a perfect Talia al-Ghul too.

It'd be great if they brought back Ra's via Lazarus and brought in Talia, and used that to book-end the trilogy out in a sense.

Mutton-chops are for 19th century politicians and Meatloaf, nobody else.

Yeah, I like them too, Colin Meloy's got a voice and their lyricism is solid. I just can't get myself to like what O'Neil described with needle-point accuracy as a "medieval rape victim rock opera."

I don't appreciate any of these puns. Paul Potts was a simple guy who managed to get up on that stage and sing, he hit the judges like carpet bombs, he burned it up, devestated, scorched earth for all the performers after him. He waded into that jungle and made it his.

Paul Potts really is a neat guy too, and it's good to see somebody else getting into opera in which ever way. Though, I wonder why he never had the confidence to just audition? I don't know if he was classically schooled or not, but any production would kill to have a voice like his among the conservatory dropouts.

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The Decemberists career has gone from "Enjoyable folk-rock act" straight to "overblown Ophelian high school drama kid prog-rock noodling mess" so if they dial this back to the level of, man, even just Picaresque, I'll be satisfied. More ideally, Her Majesty the Decemberists though.

Fuck yeah for the kids who don't get the Grizzly Bear/Dirty Projectors appeal.

Consider too that the guy is /Swedish/ so it's not like he's some American dude affecting a voice — that's just how he actually sings.